32 Bible Verses about parenting

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Fathers, don't provoke your children, so that they won't be discouraged.

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, 'to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,' and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord."

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

"'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.

All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.